-
By Chris Albrecht
January 26, 2009
-
The Indian state threatens to ban "retail giants." Are low prices "anti-people"? Ask China.
By Andrew Leonard
July 5, 2007
-
A luxury-goods department store in lower Manhattan took a beating on Sept. 11. Months later, Maine residents find themselves in Gazzarini Uomo.
By Jennifer Farley
January 28, 2002
-
Over-the-top design and a burn rate of $120 million in six months force the achingly hip fashion retail site to give up the ghost.
By Lydia Lee
May 18, 2000
-
It started the safe-sex decade by opening the first condom shop. Now 70 percent of its business is online and the company is thinking dot-com.
By Damien Cave
December 10, 1999
-
Why don't e-commerce sites offer real customer assistance, instead of clogging up bandwidth with cartoon helpers?
By Janelle Brown
November 12, 1999
-
A much-anticipated site devoted to hipster fashion launches -- complete with some off-putting boo-boos.
By Mark Gimein
November 5, 1999
-
Requests for books on send, R and taxidermy were the easy questions during my first month at a bookstore info desk.
By Andrea Siegel
August 3, 1999
-
Getting to know all about you: By Jennifer Vogel. Attention, shoppers -- what you tell supermarket clubs may be used against you.
By Jennifer Vogel
October 14, 1998
-
Service with an artificial smile: By Robert Rossney. Supermarket clubs point the way to a future of corporate-mandated friendliness and Stepford clerks.
By Robert Rossney
October 14, 1998
-
The Surreal Gourmet's solution to holiday retail madness: homemade herbed olive oils.
By The Surreal Gourmet
December 5, 1997